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THE ALBANY PATRIOT.
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“WISDOM—JUSTICE—MODERATION.”
VOL. II.
ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1846.
NO. 33.
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POETRY.
BY CHARLES KEN WORTHY.
Come, balmy Sleep! and gently steep
Mine eye-lids in thy dew :
Around my head ihy poppies shed,
And every sense imbue.
Thy lulling powers my Muse implores,
The Muse that sings and sighs,
Who seeks that balm, and holy calm,
The world to her denies.
’Neath thy soft power, in silent hour,
Let me forget, awhile,
My griefs and tears, my pangs and fears,
And Friendship’s fickle smile.
Image of Death ! o’er all but breath,
Thy sceptre thou dost sway!
’Tis sweet to trace each living grace,
As in thine arms they lay.
The fringe-closed eye, of sunset dye—
The aspect’s mild repose—
The cheek’s red stains, and azure veins,
Where scarce the life-blood flows.
As music floats, in melting notes,
To heal tli’envenomed wound—
As when the charm the sting disarms,
And pain no more is found ;—
So let me feel thine influence steal
Soft o'er my maddening brain,
While shadows swim in visions dim,
Till it trace retain.
Should’st thou not steep my sense so deep,
To quench warm feeling’s beams,
Let Fancy's hand, with magic wand,
Wave o’er my pleasing dreams.
That vision show, which years ago,
Walked, lovely, by my side ;
Whose beauteous gaze in halcyon days,
My raptured soul enjoyed.
In dreams like this, ot faded bliss,
Let life pass swift away ;
Nor let me wake, till round me break
The dawn of heaven's bright day.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Snn.
Washington, Nov. 10, 1846.
This afternoon experiments were made
in the office of the Secretary of War with
a quantity of prepared cotton, brought by
Mr. Robertson, our present consul to Bre
men, for the express purpose of securing
a patent for the inventors, Messrs. Si hae-
uhein & Bottger.
The whole cabinet—the Presklent, Gen.
Scott, Col. Totten, and a variety ol dis
tinguished gentlemen were present, and
the experiments succeeded beyond the
most sanguine expectation.
The prepared cotton ignites more read
ily than powder, and combustion is more
perfect. A hall was fired with it from a
common musket, from the window of the
War Department against the wall of the
Navy Department, with immense Strep;
an excavation of nearly the depth of an
inch being produced in the wall, anti the
ball being completely flattenled.
The <lay after to morrow, the expansive
faculty of prepared cotton will he tried at
the arsenal with the musket pendulum.
It will undoubtedly succeed as similar ex
periments have succeeded with it in Ger
many, Switzerland and England.
Preparetl cotton is nothing else than
gunpowder in a purer state and a more
acceptable tbrm. It contains precisely
the same ingredients—carbon, sulphur
and nitre, and is manufactured with great
case, and may he preserved even for
months in water. All that is necessary
is to dry it before using it. When the
preparation is on<e made, twenty-four
hours would suffice to prepare a sufficient
quantity of cotton, just takt n from the
carding machine, to carry on our whole
war with Mexico.
And yet the preparation is so simple,
so clearly a scientific reduction of the
known properly of Pitch ingredient part,
that it is only a wonder that the same dis
covery has not been made years anil years
ago. The inventors being alimit to take
out a patenl.it would* not he proper to
sav more on the suljeet now, a few days
(when thr patent will lie secured) all will
he lournl so simple that every matt may
henceforth make his own gunpowdei as
he makes his own bread, or boils his own
potatoes.
WHY DO SO MANY CHILDREN DIE?
Can this he explained ? We answer,
it can. Few things are plainer. A child
is scarcely dressed tor the first time, and
the nurse (most curses are a nurse instead
of a blessing) prepares food lor it. Mo
lasses and water, crat kers, water and su
gar, anti often grated nutmeg is added.
In a few hours the child becomes restless
and cries; and the nurse, forgetting hei
duly, plays the doctor, and administers
catnip tea, soot tea, anise-seed lea, pare
goric, Gotlfre’y cordial, peppermint, cin
namon, caster nil, or rhubarband magnes
ia. We have known the whole of these
drugs to lie given successively by a nurse
of highstanding, loan infant two days old,
and we also saw that infant die. Now
here we have elements of dissolution at
work, at a feaiful rate, in 48 hours after
the birth of the child. But lest the vain
nurse should fail to complete the woik of
death, the mother unconsciously lends her
aid by drinking port wine, ale, porter, and
other liquor; and this, too, by order of the
physician, who ought to know belter.
Dollar Nrv:spaper.
MISCELLANY,
AN AMERICAN BATTLE GROUND.
Within lour miles ol Sar;iW
A HAND CASE.
It will lie remembered that some two
months ago the steamer Emu prise blew
up in the Rio Grande, killing several per
sons, and severely wounding a good ma
ny olheis. The cot respondent ot the N.
O. Delta says, sifter the Whileville came
along side and took oft’ the wounded, he
looked around .to see what havoc was made
ol human life.
While passing through the crowd of
sufferers my attention was directed to one
whom I thought must certainly he dead.
He was swathed in bandages from head
to foot—the blood oozed from his numer
ous wounds iti thick, muddy streams, and
the I his ftice Wits actually burnetl to a crisp, j w which might result in the utter rtt-
village.il Stillwater, memorable ns the At first view 1 thought his eyes were seal- ; n n |* a confiding yet unsuspecting girl
scene of Sir John Burg ■tyite’s disaster in ded out—but I was mistaken. Kora mo- --- ' - • •
utenl I slopped to view this awful s
CONSEQUENCES OF GAMBLING.
The following tale of a gambler is told
by ilie editoriJ the Philadelphia Evening
Courier: •
lit the year 1S4-, a number of individu
als were arrested lor keeping a gambling
house on Ciiesiiut street, near Independ
ence Hall. The counsel for the prosecu
tion was sitting in his office one day, when
a young man of genteel exterior and ad
dress entered, and the following dialogue
ensued :
"I have hern summoned to appear to
iiniirowasa witness against , for keep
ing a gambling bnuse. Unless it is aftso-
Int. ly necessary,” said he, as his agita
tion increased, “I wish sir, you would not
uige my attendance.” -
“1 don’t know,” said the counsel, “that
the conviction will depend upon your tes
timony, but us you are an important wit
ness, it may lie necessary to call you upon
the stand.”
“My reason lor asking this favor are
urgent,” said (be young man, “and die
consequence of a refusal may be fatal to
rav prosperity, and the happiness of oth
ers.” He became more agitated, and at
the request of the gentlemen he continued:
“In a levy days 1 am tola* married to Mr.
’s daughter, residing on Chesnui
street. If I am called upon as a witness
in the ease I shill criminate myself, and
be exposed to die eyes of my friends, and
the public gaze as a gambler. My ■ har-
acler will lie lost, my prospects in life
blighted, and,of course my domestic hap
piness destroyed.”
“You shall not be called, young man,”
said the counsel, “unless it is absolutely
necessary,” and with assurance they sep
arated—not without some painful misgiv
ings on the part of the legid gentleman
that he was about to be accessary to a
HABITS OF THE CALIFOSNIA IN
DIANS.
In the front of the house was a large
square, where Indians assembled on Sun
day afternoons, to indulge in their favor-
rite sports and pursue their chief amuse
ment—gambling. Here numbers were
gathered together in little knots, who ap
peared engaged in angry conversation;
they were adjusting, as Daniel informed
tne, the boundary lines for the two parlies
who were to play that afternoon at ball,
and were thus occupied till dinner time.
When 1 returned from dinner they had
already commenced, and at least two nr
three hundred Indians of both sexes were
engaged in the game. It was the “Presi
dio” against the “Mission.” They play
ed with a small ball of bard wood, which,
when hit. would bound with tremeiiduuus
fnrie, without striking the ground, lor
two or three hundred voids. Great ex
citement prevailed, and immense exer
tion was manifested on both sides, so that
it was not till late in the afternoon that
the gamp was decided in favor of the Li
lians of tbe Prcsido. Manv of ill.* Indi
ans retired afterwards to the eujnvmen!
of their Tem'-snil »r hot-air baths, which
is their isual resort alter fatigue, and is
the sovereign re.ne.Jv for nearly all tin ir
diseases. A round hovel or ovpii of mud
is built, generally, over an excavation in
the ground. An ’opening is lef in the
roof tortile escape of the smoke, and uni
at the side, Ibr entrance. As many per
sons as it can conveniently hold enter, and
make a fire close to the ilonr on the inside.
They c.itniiiue to ...Id tuel tulle* Hum*
till they can no lunge, hear the intense
beat, which throws them into a profuse
perspiration. Thoroughly exhausted.they
crawl lorlh from the hut, and plunge them
selves lieu.I long into the nearest sue;.in
I have frequently seen the old men lying
aluiut oil the flout of the. oven apparently
lie reft of all ilnir strength, whilst some of
the younger persons enjoyed it, anil sang
and laughed under its iuthieiice. The
women also frequently make use ol these
baths, repeating them till their disease are
cured.—Lfe in California.
From the (Daily) Picayune. | It being now too late in the day for any
IMPORTANT FROM THE HOME further operations, signal was made for
SQUADRON i r, ' ,lir " anchorage, and thus ended this
., . bloodless combat, bloodless, not because
Second attempt upon Alvarado—Expcdu,on . M|| every mnn „f u . would not have
against Ittbasco. shed onr heart’s best blood to have gain*
We were so fortunate as to receive yes- |ed the day, not lieeanse our plan of at*
lenluv. by a pilot boat which touched at - tack was not good, or that we were not
the Balize, advices from the squadron in properly led, hut because Providence has
1777 ; a disaster of so much influence on
the fate oil he revolutionary war, that it
may be almost said to have been decisive.
Who dare speculate on what would have
been <«jr position now, had that struggle
ended diffierettly? The man whose
voice was inferior only to prophecy fore
told ruin to liberty in the success of our
policy, at that time, and the freedom of
the human race in its defeat. By the
light of Lord Chatham's wisdom, we may
read the tale of disaster in that fatal war
with a resigned and tempered sorrow for
the splendid heritage then rent away
from us forever.
The army of the ill-fatPil Burgoyne
was the best equipped and most effective
of any that had enteted the field during
the contest; high hopes were cherished
of its success; but the insurmountable
difficulties of the country, the inclement
weather, and the energy and skill of its
opponents, were its ruin. Harassed tiv
fatigue and imperfectly supplied, its fate
was hastened by two successive actions
—the first a victory, thp second a stolmrn
resistance, but both equally mischievous
in their result.
Alter the second engagement, on the
night of the 7th of October, Burgoyne si
lently abandoned his position. Embar
rassed by heavy rams and deep roads, as
well as by the number of the wounded,
they retreated for three days. On the
10th they took their final stand above the
Fishkill .river. To retreat further was
impossible. The Americans swarmed
on every side in ovet whelming numbers.
Supplies failed ; water could he got only
et the price of blond, fiir the river was
guarded by the deadly rifle ; evpry part
ef the camp was exposed to the cannon
of the enemy and the marksman’s aim;
there was no place of safety ; as long ns
daylight lasted they were shot down like
deer. For six days the spirit of English
chivalry would not how; at length hun
ger and mil, the deadly sickness and the
hopeless struggle could he no longer borne;
pec-
ta. le ot human agony, and just ns I was
about to attend to some other duty, 1 heard
a voice saying in a feeble resolute tone—
‘Hello! old teller—what are you got
in that (in cup?’
Thinking the question proceeded from
some person farther aft, 1 turned in that
direction, when the same peison indig
nantly said—
Yes that’s aller’s thp way! A feller
gits a little hurt, and jist like a porpoise
that’ wounded, his feller creatures tries to
kill him.’
To my utter astonishment I found that
this was addressed to me by the person
described above as having been so terri
bly wounded.
‘Wlial can I do for you toy friend ?’
‘What are you got in that are tin cup ?
Is it rot-gut or Melasses!’
‘It is Whisky. Will yon have some?’
•You’re the feller. Jist open my teeth
and pore a little down. I can’t see well
hut 1 think hitters will do me good.’
I did as I was directed, and he drank
the whole contents of the cop—about
halfpi.it of raw whisky and then said-
‘Thankee, old feller. Ye see 1 was as
leep, and when the hurst up took place I
was on the hiler deck, and l believe I was
blowd through one of the flues—hut never
mind, I ain’t much hurt, and I,m more
Uge.l to it than a good many. I’ve been
blowcd up four times o/oie.
That man was decidedly the ‘hardest
case’ I ever met with.
An express from Gen. Taylor arrived
at Victoiia, Texas, on the 17th ull., or
dering the Kentucky and Tennessee reg
iments of cavalry to Malatnuras instead of
Cnmargo. This express instructed the
Colonels to proceed with as much speed
as possible, so as not to unfit themselves
lor duty.
The trial came on, hut conviction was
obtained without summoning the young
man, and he went on in his course of du
plicity and crime unexposed. In a few
days he was married !
Two years passed, and a young hut
heartbroken wile appeared hft.ire the le
gal tribunal seeking a divorce. Hereoun-
el was startled, when the husband came
forward, at discovering, confronting the
wife, the identical young man who plead
not to be exposed as a gambler! The
interview will] tile witness instantly occur
red to the counsel’s mind. The paiulul
incidents of a deserted house, neglected
wile, mid the cruelties which had follow
ed his gambling habits, then .-ante up in
fearful array beliire the individual who
bad saved him from the merited exposure.
The trial proceeded, and a gradual
succession of acts of injustice, neglect,
coldness, alienation, domestic discord and
cruelties, on the part of the husband, a-
gainst a confiding and affectionate young
wife, were diseloced, which melted the
hearts.if the coldest spectators. His de
fence was feeble, and her cause triumph
ed. Happily she was liIterated from the
monster who had wounded her heart, de
stroyed her peace, and deprived her of
that happiness which I learned upon h.-r
so joyously c'uring the morning of her
Initial day.
His fate hardly need even briefly he
told. He soon lost the estepm of his
friends, (if the gambler has friends,) and
his fashionable and elegant establishment
on Chesn.it street was closed by the sher
iff, a few weeks since, and more recently
he has been arrested for forgery.. What
a brief but mclancholly detail of the fruits
reaped front the pursuits of the gamester.
THE FERIL8 OF FALSEHOOD.
In the beautiful language<if an eminent
writer, “when once a concealment or de
ceit has h-en practised in mutters, .where
all should he fair and open as the day,
confidence can never lie restored no more
than you can restore the while bloom it
the grape, or to the plum which you have
once pressed in your hand.” How true
is this, and what a neglected truth by a
great portion ol mankind. Falsehood is
not only one ol the most humiliating vices,
lint sooner or later it is most certain to
lead to many set ions .-rimes. With part
le rs in lile, will, friends, with lovers, how
important is confidence? How essential
that all guile and hypoericy should tie
guarded against in the intercourse be
tween such parti, s? How inu.-h misery
would lie avoided in ■ lie history of many
lives, bad trnib and sincerity been guiding
and cunt rolling motives, instead of pre
varications and deceit? “Any vice,”
said a parent in our hearing, a few days
since, “any vice, at lea t among the trail-
lies of a milder character, but falsehood.
Far heller that my child should i-nmmil
an error or do wrong and confess it, than
escape the penalty, however severe, by
falsehood and liypoeriey, Let rue know
the worst, and a remedy may jmssibK* lie
applied. But keep rue in the dark, let
me lie misled or deceived, and it is im
possible to tell at what unprepared hour
a crushing blow, an overwhelming ex
posure may come,”
War Spirit.—The Pittsburg Ameri
can, speaking of the call for troops upon
Pennsylvania, says : “Here in Pittsburg,
on the 19lh of October, Sir John Bur- j “the boys” are eager for the order to
goyne and all the survivors of his troops] march—and in forty-eight hours the whole
surrendered as prisoners of war to Gen. compliment could begot underarms.—
Cates and the republican army. Front j The military spirit in our city is at fever
NOBLE SENTIMENT.
We commend the following beautiful
sentiment of. Patrick Henry In the atten
tion of all the admirers of that pure pal
riot and unrivalled orator savs thr Bolti-
more Argus. It is indeed a noble senli-
tnent and worthy of its illuslrno* author.
It is taken from Wirt’s life of Patrick
Henrv, and seems to have been called
forth by some remarks of Judge Tyler
upon the propriety of commercial restric
tions:
Why,’ said Patrick Henry, ‘should
we letter commerce ? If a mail is in
bains, he droops mid hows to the earth,
for his spirits arc broken—l.ioking sorrow
fully at his feel; but let him twist the fet
ters from his limbs, and he will stand
erect—stretching himself and nssumiug
the look of proud defiance. Fetter not
Commerce. Sl« ! le' her be tie free at air
—she will rang< the whole creation, and re
turn on the four windsof 11 aE‘ n. and bless
the lund with plenty."
"Boys. Follow Me."—One of the Ten
nessee volunteers who part iei pa led in the
fighting at Monterey, in a letter to a rela
tive near Nashville, says, that at the nm-
ment the murderous discharge of artillery
and musketry was, within point-blank
inusket shut, opened upon them from the
Mexican fort, the shock caused an invol
untary, and momentary pause—here
tic* Gulf down to the 27lh oi October.
The accounts are very iiilerresiing, hut
we regret to say are mil favorable to the
sureesss of our arms. • • •
But we must not anti.-ipate the details
given by our correspondent. The reader
will find a perfectly clear, connected ac
count of the affair in the letters subjoin
ed:
Off Anton Lizardo, Oct. I3ih, 1846.
Gentlemen— We are on the eve of an
other atlai k oa Alvarado. At 5 o’clock
this altcmiKiiiCo.ii. Connor issued orders
for the soiling of the squadron, (bigates
Cumberland and Raritan excepted) for
the mouth of the Alvarado river. The
Commodore takes command of ihe expe
dition in person, making use of the steam
er V.xeu as bis flag ship for the oc< asioii.
One o'clock to-morrow morning is the
linur fixed for getting under weigh, and
already the sle.nneis*.Missis. ijipi. Vixen
and McLane are firing, up. Besides
these vessels the force consists of the
revenue cutter Forward, schooners Ree
fer, Petrel, and Bonita, and prize schoon
er Nonala. This latter vessel was recent
ly captured from Ihe Mexicans, and was
formerly the Aim ricaii scunner Belle, out
of your port. She now mounts four
42-pnutid carronades. For the past
month we have been drilling our men as
infantry upon a small island here, and
Jack is so anxious
marks lime with
ppcars pleascn that at last we are t'
have a chance at the enemy.
At the mouth of the liver the Mexicans
have a ten gun battery, and we know of a
brig of war and two gun boats bring an
chored inside. A number of their small
merchantmen have taken rrffiige in the
harbor, and there must be a smart sprink
ling of prize-money in store for us.
October 16.—Our sailing orders for the
morning of the 14ih were countermand
ed in consequence of its blowing loo fresh
for operations—occasioning a delay ol
the expedition for Iwenly-fuar hours.—
We sailed however, at I o’clock, A. M.
yesterday, but I regret to sav that we are
all at anchor again to-day and Alvarado
is yet in possesion oj the Mexicans.
You were pleased to call the former al-
la.kon Alvarado an abortion, ami I sup
pose von "will not lie sparing of bard
names for the present lailore ; but 1 trust
that win it you examine the facts of the
•use, you will understand that it is ow-
ttg to the iueffii iency ot tin* means at the
lisposal of Commodore Conner, and to
the natural defences of the place itsell,
that ive have not been successful, rather
than to any w tut ol skill or courage on
Ins part, or lack ol spirit ami support by
the officer's and .-men under his couiittniti.
We want- witbijt leu miles of the mouth
_l>f the rjver at day light and stood slowly
iiilo-shore, it liejtig *.Va;l calm—the Vixen
atid McLain* towing the schooners—the
MissiSsipgi anchored at loug-shot distance
tntd ibmplcticed Iter fire. Up to this inn.
every tiling appeared highly favotahle
for i lie smeess (4 llte expedition. There
being a heavy swell on ihe bar the pilots
declined taking the vessels over. Til
Commodore leading in ihe Vixen, with
the rest ol the force following, passed liv
tlie fort, each vessel firing her broadside
as she ranged ala ail, w ith but liple effect,
however, ..wing to the distance.. A long
eighteen in the Forward sent a shot di-
recily into tin* tori—this movement was
repeated with better success, the ilislanc
provided the enemy with such natural
letcnces as cannot lie overcome by a na
val attack with stu h means os Commo
dore Conner has at his disposal. The
McLane is an abominable abortion, (to
make use of your own word,) drawing
loo much water to he serviceable, and
with not sufficient power to drive her
over three and a half knots an hour—bnt
it is due .to Capl Howard to say that as
soon as he got his vessel afloat again he
proffered to make another attempt to pass
the bar, hut the Commodore declined, as
it was now too late in the afternoon, and
the weather was threatening.
There remains one way to take this Al
varado, anil, mark my words, it will'be
done la-fore many weeks; meanwhile
we must expect io be severely handled
by the newspapers at homeland by peo
ple who expect us to accomplish impossi
bilities and gain glorv on a field where
none is to be won—although tin man with
two ideas in bis bead, who witnessed our
recent defeat can attribute blame to any
one.
October 25.—On the night of the 16th
inst., the three steamers, cutter Forward,
schooners .Bonita, Reefer and Nonata, un
der command of Commodore Perry, left
Anton Lizardo for an attack on Tabasco,
On ihe morning of the 17th, the Missis
sippi made a prize of ihe American bark
tot a figlu that lie I Coosa, Capl Hickliiig, off* Alvarado river
good gra< e, and every and sent her into this place upon suspi
cion of her being about to land her cargo
on ihe Mexican coast. This vessel was
cleared from New Orleans on the 3d inst,
for Havana, by Messrs. Wiley & Egana.
with I6U0 bales of cotton, put up in 200
pound bales, and there appears good rea- *
son to suppose that it was intetide'd for
Mexieo. She will sail for your port on
lhe27th, in charge of Passed Midship
man Barrett, sou of one ol your former
collectors.
To-day another prize, the Yucatan
schooner “ El Telegr.ifo,” arrived from
the Tabasco expedition on the 23d, and
reports the fleet standing off' the land wai
ling tor weather to go into the river,
The following vessels are here dischar
ging coal for the steamers: bark3 Everon
and Morgan Dix ; br’ig3 Ahrasia and Ju
an Cartagena ; schooners Regina Hill and
Sarah. The latier vessel having lost her
leron her passage fron^New Orleans
to Brazos Santiago, was blown down here,
ond her coal has been made rise of by
Com. Conner.* Also, schooners Portia
from'New Orleans and Titus from New
Haven, with supplies for the squadron.
Yours, B. A.
We have reason to presume that Com.
Connei would at once have proceeded to
organise the plan of another attack upon
Alvarado had not he deemed it proper to
despatch the expedition against Tabasco
on the day after his repulse, by which
movement he has given another opportu
nity to his officers, dialed and mortified,
to wipe out the remembrance of their re
cent misfortune, at the same time being
generous enough to ailow his second in
command (Com. Perry) to achieve some
thing upon a field where it was not a point
of honor with h mselfto take the command
in person. Upon .the Tabasco expedition
Com. Perry k is taken with him about
400 officers ami men from the Cumber
land and Rari a'n as auxiliaries. With
this expedition have gone, too, almost all
the marines in the squadron. The Com-
being lessened and again the Forward ^-re fots done everything to insure it.
WARNING.
We were yesterday shown a small eup,
said to have been purchased in this city,
on .which were the words .Perish Slavery.’
“Prosper Freedom." We can scarcely
suppose that it eoulil have lieen intention
ally brought to this market by any one;
though the cup in question was found in! upon Col. Campbell, wtin was at <fae head .
the hands of a negro. It might perhaps, of his [raiment, sprung from his horse, fire, the shot flying thick and faeuuouml
however, be well enough for our citizens and waving his sword alove his head-* ’ ’ ‘ ‘ tr- <
to be on the look-out, as the enemies of cried out, “Bovs,-follow me!” No soon-
■iiailea most beautiful shot. In the mean
while the Mississippi had closed up and
was explo ling her Paixhai.s ‘ about the
heads of the Mexicans that must have
made them see more stars than the Lord
ever made. One stmt of hers dismoun
ted ;■ heavy gun of theirs from a stock
ade, this they soon remedied, Imt thus far
ail their shut had tall* n slum. During
die morning several of our luinis sounded
within hall a mile ol ilia-for'., receiving
the fire of |e enemy with as mm li impu
nity as indiffi renee. The swell on the
liar having somewhat subsided at 1, the
line of attack was formed as follows:
steamer Vixen, flag ship, lowing gini-
Immiis Reefer and Bonita ; steamer Mc-
Lane, lowing the Nonata, cutler Forward
and gun boat Petrel; then two launches,
three cutters and a barge, containing a
force destined lor Iviardmg the vessels of
war. brought up the rear. The Vixen,
w ith her low passed the bar and took po
sition within point blank range, but the
McLane stuck fast, and the Commodore
finding himself deprived of Hie support
of l wo-tbirds of liis forty*, mill lieing una
ble to sustain Ihe fire of a twelve-gun
battery with hut four light pieces of hi.
own. was obliged to reticat. The force
in the Iroats was now exposed to a heavy
it!:, ami had the Mexicans fired grape it
A DEFINITION.
An investigation was held the other
lay by the directors of one of the city
public sellouts, into the conduct of some
ol the teachers towards die scholars. A-
uibng the witnesses examined, was a
bright little fellow about ten years of
age, who was asked whether he thought
his teacher was “ partial ?”
“No tlnr, he ar’nt,” he answered
promptly enough.
“D" you know what ‘partial’ means?”
“Ofcouth I doth,” said the young rogue,
qui e indignant at this imputation upon
bis intelligence.
“ W. 11. what is it?”
“Vy, if he wops all the boys, and wop.
’em all alike, 1 does’nt call that beitr'
“partial.” * '
The teacher was immediately acquired.
SORE THROAT.
The following prescription has been
reientlv recommended, as a cure for sore
iliroat:—“ Two table spoonsful of ashes
in one pint of boiling water, to which,
after being strained, add two tea spoons
ful of table sail, a piece of alum, and nrlA
ol saltpetre, each the size of a nutmeg,
the Juice of three limes, or a little* vinegar
or orange juice, «.ll sweetened with hon-
>v j j . ... . _ _ _ would have knocked some of us-into fit*, /S- end when qpitt. gurgle the throatevr
that day America’was a nation.—English 1 beat—and can r <mly be reduced by a dose I our institutions are grown g both bold and er said than done. The fort was as pot-1 We ewaped, however, with a good dttcfe4£fy three; hour*. This. re:nf ‘^J , na ® rjfS
Paper/ j of glory.” ^ypwous.-SmamSiA R^uMican. sersionof our,pliant 1 fromthe spray of^ the balls. frequent ly trrnd, and never found to fail.